Limited Success Quotes

I wish I'd done better for England. I only played three Tests and three One Day internationals. You have to take your chances and, for whatever reason, I didn't.

You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

I grew up in Birmingham, Ala. Nobody really blow up from Birmingham, Ala.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

I've never had a big hit movie. "MASH" was probably the biggest. I don't make those kind of films, and I never have. I wish each one of them would just do billions of dollars worth of ticket sales, but they never do and they never will.

My manager came up with the name 'State of the Industry,' and it was just one of those things. It just took off. Well, I don't know about 'took off.' I'm not in the stratosphere.

Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn't because of the racist element in the record business.

For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

At the Drive-In was very meat and potatoes - a one-trick pony. Everyone was attracted to us because we put on a good live show.

For me, I believe that Dale Jr. has had a big part in kind of stunting the growth of NASCAR because he's got these legions of fans and this huge outreach of being able to reach different places that none of us have the possibility to reach, but he's won nine races in 10 years at Hendrick Motorsports and hasn't been able to reach outside of that.

I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

In 1983 I was still playing small to middling parts.

We bought a sofa with the money I made from 'Thunderbirds,' and I've still got it, and we call it Thunderbird 1. That's literally all I got out of the job.

Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.

In my first two world championship experiences, I barely saw the ice at all.

It's hard to be a two-pitch guy. People tell you that, but you don't really believe it.

If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.

You don't want to end up being an indie wrestler who wants to be the big fish in a small pond.

I've never done a show for more than one season, in my entire life.